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Polish PM says parliamentary majority stable despite party split

18.02.2026 13:00
Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said on Wednesday that two senior ministers assured him of their loyalty to the government despite turbulence within their political party, and he pledged that the ruling parliamentary majority would remain stable until the next election in 2027.
Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk.
Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk.Photo: PAP/Rafał Guz

Earlier on Wednesday, Climate Minister Paulina Hennig-Kloska announced that she and a group of more than a dozen lawmakers had left the Polska 2050 party to form a new parliamentary group called Centrum.

She said 15 lower-house lawmakers and three senators had declared their intention to join the new caucus.

That would leave Polska 2050 with 15 lawmakers, the minimum number required to maintain a parliamentary group.

Tusk said he had spoken with Hennig-Kloska and with Katarzyna Pełczyńska-Nałęcz, the leader of Polska 2050 and minister for funds and regional policy.

Both ministers assured him that, regardless of internal party tensions, they would remain loyal to the government and to the governing coalition that won the parliamentary election on October 15, 2023, Tusk said.

“The parliamentary majority—the October 15 Coalition — will remain stable in the coming months and years, certainly until the next election,” Tusk said.

He added: “We have experienced turbulence before and endured political shocks at the global, European and national levels in good condition. The coming months and years will also be a time of stable and ambitious development."

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Source: PAP